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The Isabella Bank Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $106k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY | $106,250 |
| MID MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| MID MICHIGAN MEDICAL HEART AND VASCULAR CENTER | $10,000 |
| MONTCALM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MCMCLAREN CENTRAL MICHIGAN4× · 2019–2022 · $100k · revenue +65%
- MMMID MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2024 · $36k · revenue +34%
- SESME EDUCATION FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2021 · $15k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- BCBreckenridge Community Schoolsone grant, 2023 · $18k
- BRBIG RAPIDS HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $18k
- BCBEAL CITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2018 · $18k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To advance the field of health for the public good.
To advance the well-being of michigan residents through the promotion of sound public policies and responsible legislation. the purpose of these activities is to promote policies that strengthen the michigan health care system.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Cooperatively empowering credit unions to increase financial well-being by supporting community enrichment, financial education, and credit union development initiatives
To receive and administer funds to support the mission of mclaren northern michigan and support programs that enhance the well-being of the community.
Creating healthy communities - together
The minneapolis community & technical college foundation helps solve issues of affordability and access to higher education through funds and provides part or all of the funding to the college to develop technical college foundation…
Creating healthy communities - together
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
To plan, conduct, coordinate, supervise, and finance activities that promote the well-being of the private, independent, nonprofit institutions of higher education in Michigan.
Mclaren health care, through its subsidiaries, will be the best value in health care as defined by quality outcomes and cost.
The m state foundation exists to support the mission of m state by providing financial support to help create a success story for every m state student. our vision is to create a culture that supports learning by investing in the key…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mymichigan Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mecosta County Area Chamber of Commerce. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MCLAREN CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds Mt Pleasant Area Community Fnd ↗
- Who funds MID MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALMA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MECOSTA COUNTY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds SME EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greenville Area Community Fnd ↗
- Who funds MYMICHIGAN HEALTH ↗
- Who funds MYMICHIGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTCALM COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Gratiot County Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Howard H & Ivah Sawvel Hoffmeyer Charitable Trust U/A Dtd 9-20-85 · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Isabella Bank Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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